The Dr. Nathan H. Williams House, built in 1915, is unique among
Greene & Greene homes. The windows and entry door organization
is axially symmetrical with the street elevation. The exterior
is clad in Gunite, a blown-on cement, and each Gunite-clad pillar
of the rear porch and the front balcony has perforated abstract
designs in wire mesh panels. Sunlight is shielded from the house
upstairs with deep and low eaves and downstairs with hoods over
the windows. Henry Greene showed his confidence in Gunite as
a construction material by embedding the downspouts in the exterior
walls with the material. The floor plan has a central hall with
a staircase rising at a right angle. The interior surfaces are
painted and all rooms are large and welcoming. Applied decoration
is scarce, except for a twisted-rope border and some flower
medallions carved into the white marble living-room fireplace.
This unusual work was featured in a 1917 issue of American
Country Houses of Today.